When the Des Plaines finally drops back inside its banks each spring, the yards of Lyons come out of it soft and rank and ready. LM Lawn Care takes the first cuts of the year on those small village lots — mowing high to start, trimming the ragged margins, clearing out the mat that water and cold left behind. The first mow of a season is the most satisfying one there is: an hour's work and the whole character of a yard changes. From there it becomes a rhythm, week over week, holding the line as the grass finds its stride. By June nobody would guess how the place looked in March.